HEROINES Unwinding in one long downward

Unwinding in one long downward movement

Rebanks’s own growing appreciation of their work

as historian and science blogger John Ptak notes

Widely reposted

the photographer August Sander captured his series of peasants there including the artist’s relatives

HEROINES Unwinding in one long downwardFrom the press: A manifesto reclaiming the wives and mistresses of literary modernism that inspired a generation of writers and scholars, reissued after more than a decade. I am beginning to realize that taking the self out of our essays is a form of repression. Taking the self out feels like obeying a gag orderpretending an objectivity where there is nothing objective about the experience of confronting and engaging with and swooning over literature.